1. Introduction: prison as a source of politics -- 2. Politics and prison: a background -- 3. Resistance for survival -- 4. Resistance beyond survival -- 5. Prisoner politics and organization on ...

Former South African political prisoners and exiles, alongside Palestinians, social justice activists, Global Sumud Flotilla ...

AFA copy 39088019764646 is a gift from Janet Stanley. Robben Island-best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years-has been a place of harshness and brutality; its ...

Unlike many struggle veterans, Kathrada never held public political office after the fall of apartheid. South Africas anti-apartheid icon Ahmed Kathrada, who was jailed alongside Nelson Mandela, was ...

The group compared Israel's detention and justice system to apartheid South Africa "It's the first time I'm going to visit a jail freely," German activist Yasemin Acar, a member of the Global Sumud ...

Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island, by Ashwin Desai is a slender volume that contains a gigantic book. Time seems to bend, slow down, expand and contract as we read it, as the eons of ...

Former President Nelson Mandela's release from prison was a turning point in our history. Wednesday marks exactly 36 years ...

Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison, on Robben Island, at Pollsmoor and finally at Victor Verster. On 11 February 1990, amid mounting domestic unrest and growing international pressure, President ...